Jordi Colomer

JORDI COLOMER (Barcelona, 1962).
"24 Pensées". 1990.
Set of 24 works in mixed media on magazine pages.
Signed on the back.
Measurements: 24 x 57 cm (each one); 42 x 57 cm (frames of each work).

"24 Pensées" was part of the group exhibition "Salto de página" (held at the Museum of the University of Alicante, 2023) composed of renowned artists (Alicia Framis, Joan Fontcuberta, Cristina de Middel, Equipo Crónica, José Pedro Croft or Jordi Colomer himself). Some of these works are part of the Banco Sabadell Art Collection. It was an exhibition about Artists' Books, although many of them transcend the book format, like this proposal by Jordi Colomer. In it, he opens the doors to some of the intricacies of his creative mind.

A multidisciplinary artist, Jordi Colomer lives and works between Paris and Barcelona. He trained at the Eina School in Barcelona, and studied Art History and Architecture at the University of Barcelona. In the first period of his career he developed an object sculpture to which he gradually incorporated an architectural scale, walkable constructions and references to the theater and its devices. In 1986 he began his video works in the form of micro-narratives with Beckettian roots, in which the characters are confronted with sets and objects, as in "Simo" (1997) or "Le Dortoir" (2001). He then develops a singular vision of the contemporary city. The video series "Anarchitekton (Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, Osaka)" (2002-2004) is one of his most emblematic works, in which he introduces cardboard models, replicas of real buildings and changes of scale. Colomer has also worked as a set designer, collaborating with plays by V. Novarina, J. Brossa, S. Beckett and R. Ashley. Throughout his career he has held numerous solo exhibitions, both in Spain and in Belgium, France, the United States, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland and Uruguay, among other countries. He has also taken part in important group exhibitions, the most recent of which include "Car Fetish" (Tinguely Museum, Basel, 2011), "La memoria del otro" (Museo Wifredo Lam, Havana, 2011) and "Panorama" (Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, 2010). In 2008 the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris dedicated an important retrospective exhibition to him. He is currently represented in numerous museums and collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MUMOK in Vienna and the MACBA in Barcelona.